2008 Tennessee Pork Report
Posted on April 24, 2008 by Alexa Moutevelis
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), the nation’s premiere taxpayer watchdog, and the Tennessee Center for Policy Research (TCPR), Tennessee’s free market think tank, unveiled the 2008 Tennessee Pork Report: Waste, Fraud and Abuse of Your Tax Dollars Exposed. The report is the third Tennessee Pork Report in as many years to expose wasteful spending by the state.
The Pork Report exposes $260 million in waste, fraud and abuse of tax dollars and offers enough examples to make any Tennessee taxpayer cringe, including:
- $6.5 million for boll weevil eradication - even though the pests no longer threaten Tennessee’s cotton crops;
- $1.7 million to fund a ferry service used by an average of 23 people per day;
- $1.4 million to subsidize failing state-owned golf;
- $1.2 million to fund a ferry service used by an average of 23 people per day;
- $420,000 for electric motors that were never delivered to Memphis schools;
- $200,000 in subsidies for fairs and livestock shows;
- $27,620 to support a film festival that screened “Goodnight Vagina” and “The Teat Beat of Sex;” and
- $14,436 to replace dimmer switches in the Governor’s Mansion with fancier brass models.
Filed under: Piglet, Pork, State Issues, Waste
